Lostand Foundation Inc.

Lostand Foundation Inc. is the family foundation of real-estate developer Jonathan F.P. Rose and his wife Diana Calthorpe Rose, founded in 1997 and run entirely by family: Diana C. Rose (President), Jonathan F.P. Rose (VP/Treasurer), Rachel Rose and Ariel Flores (Vice Presidents), and Vivian Weixeldorfer (Secretary/Assistant Treasurer) — none of whom draw compensation, and there is no program staff. This is not a foundation with a published RFP or online application. The website on file, lostandfoundation.org, actually belongs to an unrelated Montana medical-hardship charity called "Lost & Foundation" — no genuine public web presence for this NY funder could be located, and the database's "accepting applications" flag is a matching artifact, not a real invitation. Every credible external source (Inside Philanthropy, Grantable, Instrumentl) independently confirms the foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals and funds strictly by invitation.

The grantee list proves the point: across 268 recorded grants totaling $9.27M, the single largest recipient by a wide margin is Garrison Institute — the contemplative-education nonprofit the Roses themselves co-founded in Garrison, NY, minutes from the foundation's Cold Spring address. Counting its "Garrison Institute International" and "Garrison International Institute" filing variants together, Garrison-branded entities have received over $4.7M, roughly half of all documented giving. The remainder splits three ways: Tibetan Buddhist and contemplative-practice organizations (Druk Ralung Shedrup, Jewel Heart, Tibet Fund, Bhutan Foundation, Karuna-Shechen), marquee NYC arts and culture institutions where the Roses hold long-standing donor or trustee relationships (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dia Art Foundation, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, American Museum of Natural History), and Hudson Valley community and conservation groups near their home base (Scenic Hudson, Hudson Highlands Land Trust, Storm King Art Center, NY Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital).

For grant seekers, the realistic path is relationship-building, not a cold application: engagement with Garrison Institute's programs and network, board or committee service alongside the Rose family, trustee-level ties to the NYC cultural institutions above, or work in sustainable affordable housing (Jonathan Rose Companies' core business), evidenced by repeat grants to Enterprise Community Partners. Organizations outside these three lanes — contemplative/mindfulness, NYC blue-chip arts, or Hudson Valley community/conservation — face very long odds regardless of proposal quality, because there is no proposal to submit.

Assets peaked at $15.5M in 2011 and have declined almost every year since: $13.0M (2013), $11.8M (2014), $14.2M (2018, a partial rebound), $10.4M (2021), $9.4M (2022 filing), and $7.55M in the most recent filed return (fiscal year ending October 2024, filed September 2025) — a 51% erosion over 13 years. The 2024 decline was driven partly by revenue mix: 60.7% of that year's $542,692 in revenue came from asset sales rather than fresh contributions or investment income. Annual giving has moved in step, rising from $2.28M (2011) to a peak of $3.23M (2021), then falling to $2.38M (2022 filing) and $1.66M in the FY2024 filing, with disbursements falling from 86.4% to 81.3% of total expenses. Grant count in 2024 was 68 awards, in line with the historical range of roughly 68-77 grants per year.

Grant size is bimodal. The foundation's own typical-grant-size data shows a median of just $2,500 across 82 distinct award records (range $100-$650,592, mean $28,241), reflecting a long tail of small $250-$20,000 gala tickets, annual-fund gifts, and local program grants spread across the 190+ New York-based recipients. But the top-50 recipient list, aggregated across multiple years (268 total grants, $9.27M total, average $34,595), skews high because of a handful of seven-figure commitments: Garrison Institute ($2.93M across 5 grants), Garrison Institute International ($1.13M across 4 grants), Nature Conservancy of Canada ($1.0M in a single grant for its Boreal Wildlands Project), and Garrison International Institute ($650,592). In 2024 alone, Garrison Institute again took the largest single share — roughly $1.0M of the year's $1.6M total — meaning in a typical year well over half of all giving flows to one affiliated organization.

Geographically, New York dominates with 190 of 268 tracked grants (71%), followed by DC (14), Connecticut (11), Colorado (8), Vermont (5), Florida/Massachusetts/Michigan (4 each), and California/Virginia (3 each) — a footprint that maps onto the Roses' personal geography (Hudson Valley home, NYC business, national Buddhist and conservation network) rather than a defined service area. By program area, contemplative/Buddhist organizations plus Garrison Institute account for over half of the $9.27M tracked, NYC arts and culture institutions roughly 15-18% (BAM, Dia, Whitney, Met Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and AMNH combined near $800,000), and Hudson Valley community/conservation groups another 5-8%.

All six foundations sit in a tight $7.6M-$7.62M asset band and share the generic "Philanthropy & Grantmaking" NTEE classification, but Lostand is the only one with a documented public grants history — IRS filings and grant-database aggregators show $1.66M-$3.23M in annual disbursements and named recipients going back over a decade. None of the five peer foundations have a discoverable website or public grantee list, which is typical of small single-family foundations that operate entirely through 990-PF filings rather than any public-facing program. This makes Lostand comparatively "visible" for research purposes despite being just as closed to unsolicited applicants: the advantage for a grant seeker isn't accessibility, it's the ability to study its giving pattern (Garrison Institute, Tibetan Buddhist and NYC arts organizations, Hudson Valley conservation groups) closely enough to identify a realistic warm-introduction path, something that isn't possible with peers disclosing no grantee data at all.

Diana Calthorpe Rose now holds the President title, a shift from earlier filings where Jonathan F.P. Rose held President and Diana held Vice President/Secretary, per the foundation's historical officer records. Jonathan F.P. Rose is now Vice President/Treasurer, alongside Rachel Rose and Ariel Flores (Vice Presidents) and Vivian Weixeldorfer (Secretary/Assistant Treasurer) — an all-family, zero-compensation board that has otherwise stayed constant across recent filings.

Financially, the most recent Form 990-PF (fiscal year ending October 2024, filed September 12, 2025) shows net assets falling to $7,546,705 and revenue dropping sharply to $542,692, down from $1,360,607 the prior filing year, with 60.7% of 2024 revenue coming from asset sales rather than investment income or new contributions — a sign the foundation drew down its portfolio rather than raising new capital. Charitable disbursements were $1,657,025, or 81.3% of total expenses, continuing three straight years of declining giving from the 2021 peak of $3.23M.

On the grantmaking side, 2024's 68 grants (approximately $1.6M total) followed the same pattern as prior years: Garrison Institute again the largest single recipient at roughly $1.0M, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art appearing as a newer name among top recipients (about $50K) — not present in the 2018-2022 top-50 grantee list pulled from the foundation's own filings — suggesting a modest broadening within the NYC arts bucket even as the core Garrison Institute and Buddhist-organization commitments hold steady. No public news coverage, press releases, or leadership-transition announcements for 2025-2026 were found in web search; this foundation does not appear to issue public statements, consistent with its closed, relationship-based operating model.

Do not submit a cold LOI or proposal. Inside Philanthropy and multiple grant-database profiles independently confirm Lostand "does not accept unsolicited proposals" and funds "by invitation only." No RFP, portal, deadline, or published guidelines exist; the database's listed website (lostandfoundation.org) actually belongs to an unrelated Montana medical-hardship charity, and no genuine web presence for this NY foundation could be located during this research.

Because roughly half of documented lifetime giving ($4.7M+ of $9.27M) flows to Garrison Institute and its Buddhist/contemplative-practice network, the single highest-leverage path is direct involvement with Garrison Institute's programs, retreats, or partner network — organizations already inside that ecosystem have by far the clearest track record of receiving Lostand support.

The board is 100% family (Diana C. Rose, Jonathan F.P. Rose, Rachel Rose, Ariel Flores, Vivian Weixeldorfer) with zero compensation reported and no program staff, meaning there is no grants officer to pitch — any credible path in runs through a personal or trustee-level connection to a Rose family member, not a submissions inbox.

NYC cultural institutions where the Roses are documented long-time donors or trustees (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dia Art Foundation, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, American Museum of Natural History) show multi-year repeat giving (3-4 grants each), so gala and annual-fund participation plus trustee-level relationship-building are more productive than a formal proposal.

Hudson Valley/Cold Spring-area organizations (Scenic Hudson, Hudson Highlands Land Trust, Storm King Art Center, NY Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival) receive smaller but steady repeat gifts in the $17,500-$77,000 range across 3+ years — local Putnam County nonprofits with an existing community footprint near the foundation's Cold Spring, NY address have a plausible, if still relationship-dependent, entry point.

Affordable and sustainable-housing organizations should note the repeat funding to Enterprise Community Partners ($112,800 across 3 grants) — this tracks Jonathan Rose's day job running Jonathan Rose Companies, a green affordable-housing developer, and suggests his professional network is a secondary channel worth cultivating.

The biggest mistake to avoid is treating this as an open, application-driven funder. With 190 of 268 tracked grants going to New York recipients and heavy repeat-giving to the same roughly 50-60 organizations year over year, capacity for genuinely new relationships is limited — plan for a multi-year relationship-building effort, not a single grant cycle.